Come and Read (eBook, ePUB)

Interpretive Approaches to the Gospel of John
Redaktion: Myers, Alicia D.; Jodrey, Lindsey S.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Come and Read is a unique volume that both introduces numerous interpretive approaches to the Bible and includes examples in action with contributions from top scholars in the field. The book takes up three different passages throughout John's Gospel-John 1:1-18, John 10, and John 20-and sets four different approaches to each passage side-by-side. The three selected texts move readers through the Gospel story and represent the three major sub-genres featured in the Gospel. John's Prologue (1:1-18) is written in poetic style; John 10 represents a major discourse; and John 20 takes the form of dramatic narrative prose. Each section of the book includes readings on the focus passage from the same four interpretive perspectives: intertextual, sociocultural, rhetorical, and narrative. These approaches are broadly conceived to showcase varieties present even within approaches and how these ways of reading are connected to and benefit from one another. Overall, this book provides insight into current interpretive practices on the Gospel of John, and the rest of the Bible. It demonstrates how to use these methods effectively, illustrating not only the value of using a variety of approaches for interpretation, but also how methods impact the interpretations rendered.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978707481
• Artikelnr.: 58565889

Autorenporträt

Alicia D. Myers is associate professor of New Testament and Greek at Campbell University Divinity School. Lindsey S. Jodrey is associate director of digital learning at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Inhaltsangabe

Come and Read: An Introduction to Methods of Johannine Interpretation
Alicia D. Myers and Lindsey S. Jodrey
Part 1: John 1:1-18
1. A Narrative Reading
Beginnings: Introducing the Narrative of the Word through the Prologue of
John's Gospel
Sherri Brown
2. A Sociocultural Reading
John 1 Beyond the Binary
Lindsey S. Jodrey
3. An Intertextual Reading
Revealing the Fuller Word
Craig S. Keener
4. A Rhetorical Reading
Ambiguity as a Rhetorical Strategy in the Prologue to John's Gospel
Jo-Ann A. Brant
Part 2: John 10
5. A Narrative Reading
The Parable of the Sheepfold: A Narrative Reading of John 10
Dorothy A. Lee
6. A Sociocultural Reading
Jesus the Good Shepherd: John 10 as Political Rhetoric
Warren Carter
7. An Intertextual Reading
Persuasion through Allusion: Evocations of "Shepherd(s)" and their
Rhetorical Impact in John 10
Catrin H. Williams
8. A Rhetorical Reading
Discerning Characters: Parresia, Paroimia, and Jesus's Rhetoric in John
10:1-21
Alicia D. Myers
Part 3: Jo